Marriage Break-Up 'Greatest Failure' Of Barnaby's Life

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Posted on February 08, 2018

Amid revelations he's having a baby with a former staffer, Barnaby Joyce insists his greatest failure in life is his broken marriage.

A photograph of the deputy prime minister's pregnant partner Vikki Campion, 33, on the front page of The Daily Telegraph has triggered a fierce debate about whether the image and accompanying article are an invasion of privacy or matter of public interest.

Mr Joyce, 50, broke his silence on the scandal during an interview on national television on Thursday night and called for privacy.

"This ricochets and affects families. There's a principle here that I've always abided by, to not engage in anything that hits the private lives of other members of parliament."

And that, really, is the guts of it. Bottom line, Barnaby Joyce is a slimeball hypocrite. How low we have sunk that this blustering, drooling numbskull is deputy prime minister. https://t.co/kJYspZdlqC